ScaLibBDP>>AIC Add In Cards CXA-4F1W and CXA-8F2W

I've sent a request to get prices for CXL Standard Memory Expansion cards CXA-4F1W and CXA-8F2W. Let's wait for a response from the company.

Also, I regret to see that Datasheets for these two cards are Not available on their website for download and a customer needs to submit another request.

PS: That topic was discussed on TPU a couple of times in 2024. My opinion is that prices for CXL Memory Expansion cards are too high for a widespread adoption.

InVasManiIt's a modern I-RAM done properly and not half baked on a SATA limited interconnection. If they could actually sell these at reasonable cost plenty of people would get one for the added memory bandwidth to tap into.

InVasManiOnce it's been transferred over the bus itself though it's fine in terms of speed as a whole and much faster than M.2 storage options. Yes extending capacity is the other part and because memory bandwidth and I/O is better. The random I/O uplift over M.2 storage is probably real kicker. I mean PCIE isn't ram it's interface bus you traverse over and yeah it's a bottleneck, but temporary slow down if you have sufficient capacity that you don't need to transfer data over PCIE too routinely.

InVasManiIf it holds data it's form of storage in it's own right be it cache, memory, or standard storage types. It's still very much like a modern greatly improved I-RAM not sure what you're trying to argue about. You're taking a PCIE slot and dedicating it to system memory to use for I/O, bandwidth, and capacity that's faster than conventional storage. I don't give a damn what you want to label it.

InVasManiI don't want to argue for 10 pages over what your idea of what qualifies as storage is or some other nitpick nonsense over me looking at that and feeling like hey that's a modern I-RAM that's less ***** designed today.

ScaLibBDP>>AIC Add In Cards CXA-4F1W and CXA-8F2W

I've sent a request to get prices for CXL Standard Memory Expansion cards CXA-4F1W and CXA-8F2W. Let's wait for a response from the company.

Also, I regret to see that Datasheets for these two cards are Not available on their website for download and a customer needs to submit another request.

PS: That topic was discussed on TPU a couple of times in 2024. My opinion is that prices for CXL Memory Expansion cards are too high for a widespread adoption.

L'EliminateurThe whole idea behind CXL memory expansion is to reuse the old DDR4 from your decommissioned servers at a super cheap price, if the AIC have ridiculous pricing then this is pretty much dead in the water.

InVasManiI'm not claiming CXL to be block storage. The contents of cache or memory can still be classified as data storage though just the same irrespective of a ram disk or block storage. The point of the I-RAM was to leverage fast memory to make data faster which is same point of CXL in essence. There is really no point in discussing this any further. I know it's seen and treated as "system memory" I get that well enough.

InVasManiI don't want to argue for 10 pages...

InVasMani...There is really no point in discussing this any further...

ScaLibBDP>>AIC Add In Cards CXA-4F1W and CXA-8F2W

I've sent a request to get prices for CXL Standard Memory Expansion cards CXA-4F1W and CXA-8F2W. Let's wait for a response from the company.

Also, I regret to see that Datasheets for these two cards are Not available on their website for download and a customer needs to submit another request.

PS: That topic was discussed on TPU a couple of times in 2024. My opinion is that prices for CXL Memory Expansion cards are too high for a widespread adoption.

InVasManiThe fact that we aren't seeing CXL products cheap already and readily advertised or like arriving soon is a good indication that it's not being targeted for the consumer market space any time immediately.